Please help - I am in the middle of bringing our Workgroup PDM project files over to PDM Professional vault.

I have moved all the standard library items into a separate folder structure within the vault, and am using the 'update references', 'find files' tool to re-make the links with the main project files. It works well on the most part, but won't repair the references for any file that contains a square bracket.

I have noticed most other special characters such a (circular brackets), or # cause no such problem. See example screen shot attached where only files NOT containing square brackets were found successfully.

Why square brackets Solidworks!? Is there anyway around this please folks? Our library uses these characters regularly around part numbers and supplier names etc. so at the moment we are stuck.....

Hi Gorkem thanks for your response - I wasn't aware of a migration tool being available other than through the VAR for which our support has currently expired with. If you know differently I would be very interested in using a dedicated tool though!

Because our library isn't colossal, and we are happy to only bring across the latest version of this legacy data..... a more manual approach (like the one described in my question) would only take a day or so to complete....if only the file referencing issue mentioned hadn't shown up that is....

I managed to do a full transfer of the just the latest versions of our entire Workgroup pdm vault in just over 1hr !

All file structuring, standard components, and references have been maintained. Still playing around and fault checking with the sandbox version, but now I have the tool for the job suspect I will take the plunge and do it for real in the coming days.